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sure, he said president obama didn't raise taxes, and president obama didn't raise taxes, but really, mitt romney officially thinks that he did. they have done this over and over and over and over again, on big issues like health reform, on small issues like whether he met a guy or not. and it is a ridiculous technique. i mean, think about what this means for the long run. i mean, the romney campaign is training the country to not believe this guy when he is talking. they're training the country to feel that, you know, wherever you hear mitt romney saying something today, don't worry, it doesn't really matter. it is all subject to revision later. long-term, this is a weird technique. it has been a strange political technique from the get-go this year. but mostly, it has worked for them. them correcting the record later on to a smaller audience has mostly worked. so they just keep doing it. and they have kept getting away with it. but now, as of today, they have seemed to have gone too far to get away with it anymore. this is what mitt romney told "the des moines register" editorial bo
sure, he said president obama didn't raise taxes, and president obama didn't raise taxes, but really, mitt romney officially thinks that he did. they have done this over and over and over and over again, on big issues like health reform, on small issues like whether he met a guy or not. and it is a ridiculous technique. i mean, think about what this means for the long run. i mean, the romney campaign is training the country to not believe this guy when he is talking. they're training the...
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tell president obama american tax dollars should help american taxpayers. >> well, think progress, a progressive organization says that two of the claims about jobs in finland and mexico are made up by bloggers. and it is said that these two brothers don't like alternative fuel fuels and they are out spending millions off dollars to trash an escape route down road in the future for oil and gas. >>? a two-fer for the president, they don't like democrats and they don't support the president and they really don't like democrats who like alternative fuels so they are attacking president obama with blogs that have not been fact-checked and making it sound like anybody who likes green jobs is for mexico and finland and not the united states. >> i don't care if you are or right, but you only get one vote. so the koch brothers can go all over the country, and dump tons of money and just switch the race around. >> they can and will. >> look, we have had a series of decisions made starting with the supreme court back in buckley valet owe in 1972 and progressively seen the system of campaign an
tell president obama american tax dollars should help american taxpayers. >> well, think progress, a progressive organization says that two of the claims about jobs in finland and mexico are made up by bloggers. and it is said that these two brothers don't like alternative fuel fuels and they are out spending millions off dollars to trash an escape route down road in the future for oil and gas. >>? a two-fer for the president, they don't like democrats and they don't support the...
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class taxes even more. this is not spin. this is not my opinion. these are facts. this is what they're presenting as their plan. this is their vision? there is nothing new. just what bill clinton said they tried before on steroids. [ applause ] >> i understand i've got a lot of supporters here, but i want to speak to everybody who is watching who may not be a supporter and may be undecided and are thinking of voting me out of the way. if you agree with the vote i just described. if you want to give the policies of the last decade another try, then you should vote for mr. romney. like i said, i know i've got supporters here. . no, you should vote for his allies and you should take them for their word and they will take america down this path and mr. romney has promised to deliver on that plan. >> no, he is. >> i am giving you an honest presentation of what he's proposing. i'm looking forward to the press following up and making sure that you know i'm not exaggerating. i believe their approach is wrong and i'
class taxes even more. this is not spin. this is not my opinion. these are facts. this is what they're presenting as their plan. this is their vision? there is nothing new. just what bill clinton said they tried before on steroids. [ applause ] >> i understand i've got a lot of supporters here, but i want to speak to everybody who is watching who may not be a supporter and may be undecided and are thinking of voting me out of the way. if you agree with the vote i just described. if you...
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,ver since he released his tax returns, the obama campaign has been highlightingow unfair our tax policies e. tch this. >> it's crazy that mitt romn wants to get into office and ameran.es anhe ave >> i mean, these kinds of ads showing the kind of gap between what average americans pay on a percentage basis than romney than a continual revolution of opholes. the thini'sureare rt of why we're seeing him sink in the polls. >> if we can go back to i dig it, that program allows him to set up a trust for his children and his family and at a time worrnd tling pollsters s are that they don't believe their children are going to do better than they d, these are the strategy that he uses to make sure his children are multimillionaires without lifting a finger when their childr cannot get jobs. so in every ila tt eve referred to before, is this kind of empathy gap where people really don't believe that mitt romney can understand them, that he wants to help them because he doesn't think that he knows them. steve, on top of that, the economic policinstitute has me o wit a s o ey budgetnd they ha actuall
,ver since he released his tax returns, the obama campaign has been highlightingow unfair our tax policies e. tch this. >> it's crazy that mitt romn wants to get into office and ameran.es anhe ave >> i mean, these kinds of ads showing the kind of gap between what average americans pay on a percentage basis than romney than a continual revolution of opholes. the thini'sureare rt of why we're seeing him sink in the polls. >> if we can go back to i dig it, that program allows him...
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tax rate, they're taxed at a lower rate. the businesses in the last 3% of businesses happen to employ half -- half of all people that work in small business. they employ one-quarter of all workers in america, and you want to take their tax rate from 35% to 40%. i talked to a guy with a very small business, he's in the electronics business in st. louis. he has four employees. he said he and his son calculated how much they pay in taxes, federal income tax, federal payroll tax, state sales tax, state property tax, gasoline tax, it added up to well over 50% of what they earned. and your plan is to take the tax rate on successful small businesses from 35% to 40%. the national federation of independent businesses says that will cost 700,000 jobs. i don't want to cost jobs. my priority is jobs. and so what i do, i bring down the tax rates, lower deductions and exemptions, the same idea by behind bowles-simpson, by the way, get the rates down, lower exemptions and create jobs. there's nothing better to get us to a balanced budget t
tax rate, they're taxed at a lower rate. the businesses in the last 3% of businesses happen to employ half -- half of all people that work in small business. they employ one-quarter of all workers in america, and you want to take their tax rate from 35% to 40%. i talked to a guy with a very small business, he's in the electronics business in st. louis. he has four employees. he said he and his son calculated how much they pay in taxes, federal income tax, federal payroll tax, state sales tax,...
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mitt romney wants to cut taxes for the wealthiest americans. see the people at the top of that chart, they are the ones that have benefitted and will benefit no matter what happens tomorrow. for 30 years, they have gotten all the breaks, all the tax cuts, trade deals they have wanted, they have kept the middle class from growing. they have kept the working man down. that's what mitt romney wants to continue to do. he's the chief of outsourcing. mitt romney wants to go back to failed policies of the bush administration. this is what got us in this mess in the first place. every economic indicator, every single one, and to some conservative friends i have, this is what i say. every economic indicator is up. since the day president obama took office. gdp, the stock market, jobs, consumer confidence, housing starts, corporate profits, they ought to be loving this guy. manufacturing is up, unemployment is down. we're better off today than four years ago. tomorrow we're going to have a chance to make sure that the great american middle class of this
mitt romney wants to cut taxes for the wealthiest americans. see the people at the top of that chart, they are the ones that have benefitted and will benefit no matter what happens tomorrow. for 30 years, they have gotten all the breaks, all the tax cuts, trade deals they have wanted, they have kept the middle class from growing. they have kept the working man down. that's what mitt romney wants to continue to do. he's the chief of outsourcing. mitt romney wants to go back to failed policies of...
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they concluded it was a tax. that's what it is. >> he contradicted his senior adviser who told chuck todd he believed the mandate was not a tax. >> the governor believes that what we put in place in massachusetts was a penalty and that he disagrees with the court's ruling that the mandate was a tax. >> so agrees with the president, but agrees with the president that it is not and he believes that you shouldn't call the man -- the tax penalty a tax, you should call it a penalty or a fee or a fine? >> that's correct. >> and michael steele, how can obamacare be a tax and romneycare be a penalty? >> yeah, well, good question and i think from the governor's perspective, he's looking at it from two levels. one is what states do and how states handle these matters and what the laws allow him to get away with and of course, the federal government and he's drawing a bright distinction between the federal government imposing a tax under the court's, government's taxes authority versus what they passed in the state of massa
they concluded it was a tax. that's what it is. >> he contradicted his senior adviser who told chuck todd he believed the mandate was not a tax. >> the governor believes that what we put in place in massachusetts was a penalty and that he disagrees with the court's ruling that the mandate was a tax. >> so agrees with the president, but agrees with the president that it is not and he believes that you shouldn't call the man -- the tax penalty a tax, you should call it a penalty...
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and a lot of taxes. a lot of taxes. so harry is simply wrong. and that's why i'm so anxious for him to give us the names of the people who have put this forward. i wouldn't be at all surprised to hear the names are people from the white house or the obama campaign or who knows where they're coming from. >> come on now. why don't you give us your tax returns and we'll put that oto bed. "the ed show" reached out to him for a response to the fact he always paid taxes. if that's true, why doesn't romney just release his tax returns? what's he hiding? this is bare knuckle politics. the pugilistic senator knows how to hit hard and has the republican candidate for presidential reeling. some might call his tactics unfair, but one might hope they call the many outlanding attacks on obama unfair. the republican party and its media representatives spent the better part of 2008 obsessing over obama's place of birth. they created exaggerated ties between the president and figures like tony resco and bill ayers. they have created an american bashing caricatur
and a lot of taxes. a lot of taxes. so harry is simply wrong. and that's why i'm so anxious for him to give us the names of the people who have put this forward. i wouldn't be at all surprised to hear the names are people from the white house or the obama campaign or who knows where they're coming from. >> come on now. why don't you give us your tax returns and we'll put that oto bed. "the ed show" reached out to him for a response to the fact he always paid taxes. if that's...
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he tells us now that a 20% tax cut will miraculously create jobs but economists say this is nonsense. and we know his record in practice, 47th. but perhaps more troubling is mitt romney's view of the nation. in the safety of a guilded fund raiser in florida he revealed what he thinks of this country. here's what he said in his own words. >> there are 47% who are with him. who are dependent upon government who believe they are victims, who believe government has a responsibility to care for
he tells us now that a 20% tax cut will miraculously create jobs but economists say this is nonsense. and we know his record in practice, 47th. but perhaps more troubling is mitt romney's view of the nation. in the safety of a guilded fund raiser in florida he revealed what he thinks of this country. here's what he said in his own words. >> there are 47% who are with him. who are dependent upon government who believe they are victims, who believe government has a responsibility to care for
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if it walks like a tax, administers like a tax, it's going to be superficial. romney's had a tough three weeks. on bain capital, immigration, health care. people like bill crystal are saying the campaign has to give some sense of vision and purpose beyond trying to win this simply as a referendum. saying if you're tired of obama, vote for romney. i don't think that one dimensional approach is going to work. i think michael is right. they're going to have to tighten up, they can't just hope the economy goes down the tubes and they win that way. there were two attacks from mitt romney on heavy weights. see what "the wall street journal" wrote in an editorial. the romney campaign thinks it can play it safe and coast to the white house by saying the economy stinks and it's mr. obama's fault. thanks guys but americans already know that. what they want to hear from the challenger is some understanding of why the president's policies aren't working and how mr. romney's policies will do better. also weekly standard editor bill crystal wrote, is it too much to ask mitt
if it walks like a tax, administers like a tax, it's going to be superficial. romney's had a tough three weeks. on bain capital, immigration, health care. people like bill crystal are saying the campaign has to give some sense of vision and purpose beyond trying to win this simply as a referendum. saying if you're tired of obama, vote for romney. i don't think that one dimensional approach is going to work. i think michael is right. they're going to have to tighten up, they can't just hope the...
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have a theory that frankly was not a popular theory in the country, which is that if we go back to tax cuts for the wealthy, that would profit everyone. and then for romney himself, there were specific things that he did. i think the decision in the final week to try to litigate the auto bailout again in ohio had a tremendously negative impact there. and perhaps beyond ohio. so, you know, in the final analysis, there are a lot of factors here, but in the short-term that was a bad decision in my view. >> people are looking at what happened and saying that the senate remains with the democrats and the house remains with the republicans. how can we expect the washington machine that many see as being fractured if not paralyzed to regenerate itself and get stuff done. speaker boehner has come out and said, mr. president, let's get some stuff going here. how much of the responsibility lays with him and speaker boehner? >> people want cooperation on both sides. the issue at hand will be the fiscal cliff and our budgetary situation. the president's put a proposal forward, it's incumbent on th
have a theory that frankly was not a popular theory in the country, which is that if we go back to tax cuts for the wealthy, that would profit everyone. and then for romney himself, there were specific things that he did. i think the decision in the final week to try to litigate the auto bailout again in ohio had a tremendously negative impact there. and perhaps beyond ohio. so, you know, in the final analysis, there are a lot of factors here, but in the short-term that was a bad decision in my...
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i want to stop giving tax breaks to companies that reward -- tax breaks that reward companies that are shipping jobs overseas. reward companies that are investing here in america. in the next generation of manufacturing. that's how we grow an economy. that's how we create jobs. that's what i see for colorado. that's what i see for our future. change, real change, is turning the page on a decade of war. so we can do some nation building here at home. you know, as long as i'm commander in chief, we will pursue our enemies with the strongest military the world's ever known, but it's time to use the savings from ending two wars to pay down our debt. rebuilding america, repairing roads and bridges. making sure our schools are state of the art, putting people back to work right now. especially our veterans, because anybody who has fought for our freedom should not have to fight for a job or a roof over their heads or the care that they need or the benefits they've earned when they come home. that's how we keep ourselves strong, by keeping our commitments to those who sack f sacrificed so muc
i want to stop giving tax breaks to companies that reward -- tax breaks that reward companies that are shipping jobs overseas. reward companies that are investing here in america. in the next generation of manufacturing. that's how we grow an economy. that's how we create jobs. that's what i see for colorado. that's what i see for our future. change, real change, is turning the page on a decade of war. so we can do some nation building here at home. you know, as long as i'm commander in chief,...
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. >> and with the tax cuts of 2010. >> i'm trying to figure out if they have he been triangleated or if there is a way to untriangle the story. >> cenk: progressives are just disgruntled. it's funny they're just starting to figure it out. is it going to effect the election? how disgruntled are they? no president gives you everything that you want. is it something extraordinary. >> amongst talking with progressives about populous issues there are concerns, at least among activists that the president and the democratic party are too eagle for sell away things that are important to the middle class. frankly there is a real concern a legitimate one, that corporate money has infected the democrat democratic party far more than is tolerable. things like the transpacific partnership where we're seeing 130 house members now. we're saying, we want to see this nafta plus essentially trade pack that the administration is negotiating in secret. issues like bankruptcy and the way they handled mortgage crisis and no accountability of banksters. i'm not getting to the civil libertarian aspect that
. >> and with the tax cuts of 2010. >> i'm trying to figure out if they have he been triangleated or if there is a way to untriangle the story. >> cenk: progressives are just disgruntled. it's funny they're just starting to figure it out. is it going to effect the election? how disgruntled are they? no president gives you everything that you want. is it something extraordinary. >> amongst talking with progressives about populous issues there are concerns, at least among...
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benefits and tax entitlements and special tax treatments across the entire code lower tax rates it seems to me, was a very effective political stand. he articulated extremely well as pat said. it was very sub studentive performance. he said it in a very organized and clear way. i think he was extraordinarily more effective than anybody anticipated, and the president, for whatever reason, was just not in the game. >> why was obama thrown off balance? >> i call it the second-term blahs, john. you've seen this happen with other presidents running for reelection. it's the kind of a job where you're constantly having people, really, you know, yes- men and yes-women surrounding you, and you kind of get out of practice on standing up there and telling someone who is telling you to your face that you're ruining the country. obama's conflict of verse -- obama is conflict averse, anyway, when it comes to directly confronting people. he should be well familiar from being out there on the stump. he was giving these elongated answers, complex, compound sentences instead of just saying, mr. romney, yo
benefits and tax entitlements and special tax treatments across the entire code lower tax rates it seems to me, was a very effective political stand. he articulated extremely well as pat said. it was very sub studentive performance. he said it in a very organized and clear way. i think he was extraordinarily more effective than anybody anticipated, and the president, for whatever reason, was just not in the game. >> why was obama thrown off balance? >> i call it the second-term...
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and if it is a tax, does that mean romney raises his taxes in his plan in massachusetts? according to romney, not exactly. we'll get to his verbal gymnastics at the top of the program. >>> meanwhile, president obama is on a bus tour through ohio and pennsylvania. can he make inroads among those working class voters? >>> and speaking of those voters, how will they respond to the new reports of romney's extensive offshore bank accounts? does romney have an image problem? >>> and a florida life guard loses his job for trying to help save a swimmer's life. we'll ask him what happened. >>> and finally, what went wrong at this fourth of july celebration in san diego? all of the fireworks exploded at the same time making for a bombastic but brief display. we'll figure out what happened in the sideshow tonight. >>> we begin with mitt romney calling the health care mandate a tax. michael steele is an msnbc political analyst and bob shrum is a democratic strategist. it took only a week but romney is now on board with other republicans when it comes to their attack line against the
and if it is a tax, does that mean romney raises his taxes in his plan in massachusetts? according to romney, not exactly. we'll get to his verbal gymnastics at the top of the program. >>> meanwhile, president obama is on a bus tour through ohio and pennsylvania. can he make inroads among those working class voters? >>> and speaking of those voters, how will they respond to the new reports of romney's extensive offshore bank accounts? does romney have an image problem?...
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not every tax dollar is spent wisely. not every person can be helped who refuses to help themselves. that is not an excuse to tell the vast majority of the hard working americans, many of whom are struggling, you're on your own. unless you are lucky enough to have parents to afford to lend you money, you may not be able to go to college. if you pay your premiums every month, the insurance company may decide to drop your coverage when you need it most and you are out of luck. that's not who we are. that's not what built america. we built this country together. we build railroads and highways and the hoover dam and the golden gate bridge. we built those things together. we sent my grandfather's generation to college on the gi bill. including my grandfather. we do that together. we didn't make investments that ultimately led to the internet or all these things that created platforms for private dbusinesss to succeed. we did not do it for one individual or one particular group. we did it because this will make us all richer.
not every tax dollar is spent wisely. not every person can be helped who refuses to help themselves. that is not an excuse to tell the vast majority of the hard working americans, many of whom are struggling, you're on your own. unless you are lucky enough to have parents to afford to lend you money, you may not be able to go to college. if you pay your premiums every month, the insurance company may decide to drop your coverage when you need it most and you are out of luck. that's not who we...
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i'll take the tax burden off business, small business, whatever, the other -- >> the tax burden. >> i'll make it easy for them to make money. cowboy capitalism will be back under me. all the rich people in the world will come to america to make business because this will be the easiest place to practice business in the world. that was his religion last night. now, can the president match that with a clear notion of what he knew? given what he's done, the stimulus package -- >> i understand, i understand. i understand, chris. i think once again bill clinton laid it out over the last many weeks. bill clinton talked with great infection enthusiasm about what bill clinton had done to stimulate business in the san diego area in terms of genome, all the jobs that created. animation and virtual reality programs in orlando associated with disney that created nows of jobs in that area. i think the president might want to look at what he's done so far, talk about what he's done in terms of the auto industry -- >> right. >> look for -- look for other auto industries around the country -- >> why doe
i'll take the tax burden off business, small business, whatever, the other -- >> the tax burden. >> i'll make it easy for them to make money. cowboy capitalism will be back under me. all the rich people in the world will come to america to make business because this will be the easiest place to practice business in the world. that was his religion last night. now, can the president match that with a clear notion of what he knew? given what he's done, the stimulus package -- >>...
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women next on the men's list were taxes. taxes were on the bottom -- chris: why is that? both sides of the gender aisle pay taxes. men are more tax sensitive. >> the men's lineup is very much towards business and the women's was much more towards family, heath, equity -- health equity. chris: let's talk something more interesting than this policy. behavior in the debates. romney came strong, confident, i can win this. obama was much more passive. second debate a little more aggressive. but romney was in command in many ways. how do women react to that? >> all romney had to do was not be weird because he's been portrayed as this strange person -- >> he was seen as robotic and soulless until the first debate. whatever economic message women had women weren't listening because they thought he was a robot. once he emerged as not robotic, ok, he's not so bad. >> one caveat, i he was, i think some women whom i talked to afterwards including some people who were undecided in their room thought he was trude the president of the united states and rude to the moderator and just pus
women next on the men's list were taxes. taxes were on the bottom -- chris: why is that? both sides of the gender aisle pay taxes. men are more tax sensitive. >> the men's lineup is very much towards business and the women's was much more towards family, heath, equity -- health equity. chris: let's talk something more interesting than this policy. behavior in the debates. romney came strong, confident, i can win this. obama was much more passive. second debate a little more aggressive....
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taxes even more. this is not spin. this is not my opinion. these are facts. this is what they're presenting as their plan. this is their vision. there is nothing new -- just what bill clinton has called the same ideas they've tried before, except on steroids. [laughter] [applause] now, i understand i've got a lot of supporters here, but i want to speak to everybody who's watching who may not be a supporter -- may be undecided, or thinking about voting the other way. if you agree with the approach i just described, if you want to give the policies of the last decade another try, then you should vote for mr. romney. >> booo -- >> now, like i said, i know i've got supporters here. no, no, you should vote for his allies in congress. >> no! >> you should take them at their word, and they will take america down this path. and mr. romney is qualified to deliver on that plan. no, he is. [applause] honesting you an presentation of what he's proposing. the, i'm looking forward to press following up and making s
taxes even more. this is not spin. this is not my opinion. these are facts. this is what they're presenting as their plan. this is their vision. there is nothing new -- just what bill clinton has called the same ideas they've tried before, except on steroids. [laughter] [applause] now, i understand i've got a lot of supporters here, but i want to speak to everybody who's watching who may not be a supporter -- may be undecided, or thinking about voting the other way. if you agree with the...
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romney hit the president on taxes. >> the president's proposed raising the tax rate from 35% to 40%. noti now that means the business can keep less capital and hire fewer people. it will kill jobs. >> the higher rates a ploy to wealthier americans and romney attempted to tie the struggling economy to the president's health care law through a selective reading of a book by the new republic's shriver. the kouchbt decision that is the president's economic advisers made in the first months of office. >> the idea that they knowingly slowed down our recovery in order to put in place obama care which they want and they considered historic, but the american people did not want or consider historic deserves a lot of explaining. >> actually what that was about was the issue of whether to movo to a new topic after they had passed the stimulus. there wasn't much that could be done until you put the stimulus in place. one thing they have done to push that hasn't broken through is an outrage to hispanics. he rolled out the team and the campaign believes they don't have to crack the message specifi
romney hit the president on taxes. >> the president's proposed raising the tax rate from 35% to 40%. noti now that means the business can keep less capital and hire fewer people. it will kill jobs. >> the higher rates a ploy to wealthier americans and romney attempted to tie the struggling economy to the president's health care law through a selective reading of a book by the new republic's shriver. the kouchbt decision that is the president's economic advisers made in the first...
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nothing in income tax? >> that's federal income tax, and one of the points i make is if you look at the middle class, they pay 10% or 11% for federal tax asian. for most middle income families, the payroll tax is where their burden falls. so it's simply not the case that people don't pay federal tax, they just don't pay federal income tax. >> i'm talking about income taxes -- >> 40% of the country doesn't pay income tax. >> i think allowing the income tax to increase not just at the high end, but resetting as it were under the clinton years where middle income fairways pay more as well. i consider that $250,000 threshold to be pretty arbitrary. the low income folks should be held harmless. folks middle income on up will have to face slightly higher tax bills. >> we have to talk about this threshold. i was with my deer friends just the other night, they both work for government by the way, and collectively they bring in $250,000, they have two kids, and they do not consider themselves rich. >> that's a good
nothing in income tax? >> that's federal income tax, and one of the points i make is if you look at the middle class, they pay 10% or 11% for federal tax asian. for most middle income families, the payroll tax is where their burden falls. so it's simply not the case that people don't pay federal tax, they just don't pay federal income tax. >> i'm talking about income taxes -- >> 40% of the country doesn't pay income tax. >> i think allowing the income tax to increase not...
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effective tax ratehan s. corporations paid at the time. the company also said the operations would not be suect to material united states taxes because it should not be nsidered to veignificant incomeffeclyne with a trade or business in the united states. guy plays all the angles, doesn't he? so mitt romney, the presidential candidate, who now talks tough on china and says that president obama isn't tough on china, what do you tnk hdiwith all ll ail 17th, 1998, just 9 days after the document was released, brookside incorporated, an affiliatef bain capital, acquired about 6% of global tech. mitt romney was listed as the sole shareholder, sole dirtor, president and o ofrookside rped mitt romney chose to pay less taxes and exploit workers all for a profit. midd classers, you nervous tonight? you ought to be. tonight in our survey, i asked, can the president sustain his moment for0 days? 99% of you say yes. 1% of you say no. >>> coming up, george w. bush is back. this time he's going to be dancing up a storm in t
effective tax ratehan s. corporations paid at the time. the company also said the operations would not be suect to material united states taxes because it should not be nsidered to veignificant incomeffeclyne with a trade or business in the united states. guy plays all the angles, doesn't he? so mitt romney, the presidential candidate, who now talks tough on china and says that president obama isn't tough on china, what do you tnk hdiwith all ll ail 17th, 1998, just 9 days after the document...
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class taxes even more. this is not spin. this is not my opinion. these are facts. this is what they're presenting as their plan. this is their vision. there is nothing new. just what bill clinton has called the same ideas they've tried before except on steroids. now i understand i've got a lot of supporters here. i between speak to everybody who is watching who may not be a supporter, may be undecided or think about voting the other way. if you agree with the approach i just described, if you want to give the policies of the last decade another try, then you should vote for mr. romney. i like i said i know i've got supporters here. no, new york you should vote for his allies in congress. you should take them at their word and they will take america down this path. mr. romney is qualified to deliver on that plan. no, he is. i'm giving you an honest presentation of what he's proposing. i'm looking forward to the press following up and making sure that you know i'm not exaggerating. i believe their approach is
class taxes even more. this is not spin. this is not my opinion. these are facts. this is what they're presenting as their plan. this is their vision. there is nothing new. just what bill clinton has called the same ideas they've tried before except on steroids. now i understand i've got a lot of supporters here. i between speak to everybody who is watching who may not be a supporter, may be undecided or think about voting the other way. if you agree with the approach i just described, if you...
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another $5 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy, that's not change. refusing to answer questions about the details of our policies until after the election, that's definitely not change. >> president obama also told voters that he would fight hard for them and their families. and if you hope the polls will shed some light on who will win? forget about it. cnn editor paul stein hauser is here to do the math for us. paul, what do the national polls look like? >> two days to go, and we have four polls that are nonpartisan and came out since midnight. let's start with the abc news/"washington post." 48% of likely voters supporting the president. 48% supporting mitt romney. how about nbc news/"wall street journal," pretty much the same story, a 1 percentage point ahead of mitt romney. and pugh research center, they came out with obama with a 3 point advantage. that's within the sampling error. this is just about dead even as we get into the election. >> act what battleground states? >> that's the key here because this is not a popular vote, this is a battl
another $5 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy, that's not change. refusing to answer questions about the details of our policies until after the election, that's definitely not change. >> president obama also told voters that he would fight hard for them and their families. and if you hope the polls will shed some light on who will win? forget about it. cnn editor paul stein hauser is here to do the math for us. paul, what do the national polls look like? >> two days to go, and we...
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massive tax increase. romney cannot defend this plan on its merits, so he simply says i'll negotiate this with congress. it doesn't matter what he negotiates, there's not enough money there. it's a simple matter of arithmetic. but he's being a smooth liar about this. >> is the mathematics policy? can you offset $5 trillion with big deductions by getting rid of them when he said tonight to accomplicer, i'm going to leave the mortgage preference, the charitable preference, what is left? >> first off, you're kind of misquoting what he said. number one, he said it's not a $5 trillion dr. >> 4.8. >> but it is. i don't care what he says, he's lying. it is $5 trillion. >> bob, let me make mire point. >> don't repeat his lie without any evidence. >> i'm not repeating it. the fact you call it a lie, you take that up with him. >> no, he's the one who's lying. >> let me make the point. how does it not -- >> the fact of the matter is he's identified that what he's going to do is limply fill the tax code in a number of
massive tax increase. romney cannot defend this plan on its merits, so he simply says i'll negotiate this with congress. it doesn't matter what he negotiates, there's not enough money there. it's a simple matter of arithmetic. but he's being a smooth liar about this. >> is the mathematics policy? can you offset $5 trillion with big deductions by getting rid of them when he said tonight to accomplicer, i'm going to leave the mortgage preference, the charitable preference, what is left?...
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news discovered whether he uses tax loopholes available only to the super rich tax lawyers not tell a.b.c. news that companies like bain set up their accounts here in the caymans and other tax havens primarily to attract foreign investors who want to invest in u.s. companies without having to pay us taxes that's great for bain and for the foreign investors but not so great for the u.s. treasury and american taxpayers american taxpayers who vote so romney uses our roads and bridges uses our police officers he uses our education system is protected by our military but he doesn't think he needs to pay for all that stuff least pay his fair share of it in taxes joining me now is sam seeder host of the majority report co-host of the ring of fire radio and rebecca wilkins senior counsel on federal tax policy at the institute of taxation and economic policy was citizens for tax justice we're back and sam glad to have you both with the saying let me start out rebecca with you as a tack a tax expert can you explain exactly what romney's doing down in the caymans and i understand some of this has to
news discovered whether he uses tax loopholes available only to the super rich tax lawyers not tell a.b.c. news that companies like bain set up their accounts here in the caymans and other tax havens primarily to attract foreign investors who want to invest in u.s. companies without having to pay us taxes that's great for bain and for the foreign investors but not so great for the u.s. treasury and american taxpayers american taxpayers who vote so romney uses our roads and bridges uses our...
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he will do anything to protect tax cuts to the wealthy k. we expect a negative campaign going forward. >> it should focus on the policy differences. there is plenty to disagree on and those differences are very stark and that is why the vice-president pick helps to sharpen the issues. no need to get into personal attacks. look at the impact of the budget. and it is standing there for everybody to look at. it provides tax breaks to the tt deeply into other investments including education, it does put the risk of rising health care costs on seniors and medicare. no question it does those. and eliminates the benefits provided in medicare in terms of closing the prescription doughnut hole. it is a healthy sharp debate on the issues and i hope the country will take advantage television. i believe in the end of the day, when people focus on the differences, they will not return to a souped up version of bush trickle down economics. we have been there and tried it and it failed. >> certainly nothing wrong with a healthy and sharp debate. congressma
he will do anything to protect tax cuts to the wealthy k. we expect a negative campaign going forward. >> it should focus on the policy differences. there is plenty to disagree on and those differences are very stark and that is why the vice-president pick helps to sharpen the issues. no need to get into personal attacks. look at the impact of the budget. and it is standing there for everybody to look at. it provides tax breaks to the tt deeply into other investments including education,...
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this is a tax in itself -- the economy tax. gasoline prices have doubled under the president, electric rates are up, food prices are up, health-care costs have gone up by $2,500 per family. the question is how to get them going again. it is energy and trade. the right kind of training programs. the president mentioned those ideas. education. it is key. it is the future of our economy. we have 47 training programs. they are reporting to eight agencies. we have to get those dollars back to the states and to the workers so they can create pathways into training they need for jobs that will help them. taxation. we should bring the tax rates down. for corporations and individuals. for us not to lose revenue, i lowered deductions and credits and intentions so we keep taking in the same money when you account for growth. energy is critical. the president pointed out that production of oil and gas in the u.s. is up but not due to his policies -- in spite of his policies. all of the increase in natural gas and oil has happened on privat
this is a tax in itself -- the economy tax. gasoline prices have doubled under the president, electric rates are up, food prices are up, health-care costs have gone up by $2,500 per family. the question is how to get them going again. it is energy and trade. the right kind of training programs. the president mentioned those ideas. education. it is key. it is the future of our economy. we have 47 training programs. they are reporting to eight agencies. we have to get those dollars back to the...
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what should tax policy look like? and if the president wants to get rid of the idea that you could turn ordinary income into capital gains, why not get rid of carried interest? why not come out with a buffett rule, where everybody who has more than $1 million gets taxed. >> first of all, the minimum tax of 30% is not all that high. if you look at the percentage of gdp going to taxes in american compared to every other wealthy country in the world, there are only -- of the top 31 countries, i think we're 29th in terms of total tax take. if you live in new york city, i don't think you feel that because they are markedly higher than the rest of the country. but as a whole in the country, we -- our tax rates are not out of line. and what the problem in having this conversation now is, when i was president we had a booming economy. most people didn't resent those tax hikes. and even middle income people were paying slightly higher taxes. >> instead of portions. >> right. everybody was. but we had a booming economy. so i th
what should tax policy look like? and if the president wants to get rid of the idea that you could turn ordinary income into capital gains, why not get rid of carried interest? why not come out with a buffett rule, where everybody who has more than $1 million gets taxed. >> first of all, the minimum tax of 30% is not all that high. if you look at the percentage of gdp going to taxes in american compared to every other wealthy country in the world, there are only -- of the top 31...
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the bush tax cuts that were passed in the beginning of the bush presidency did not lead to an eight-year period of robust growth. there was some growth but it was not as though it was an all out success. i would try to pin him down on that. second, the question of whether his economic policy, the proposals he has put on the table, why they would not create continuing problems with the deficit? he has talked of the dealing with the deficit but i don't think he has been specific enough in dealing with the trade-off that he would have to deal with and the potential consequences of those. >> in the room, we have 18 students from purdue university. you graduated from other small school not to far away, the university of illinois. when you're there, did you have any idea where you would end up from 1978-now at "the washington post" covering presidential campaigns? >> i hoped i would end up in washington. when i was a sophomore on the recommendation of my brother who is 3 years old and i and was at the university, joined the student newspaper. that following summer and did an internship in wash
the bush tax cuts that were passed in the beginning of the bush presidency did not lead to an eight-year period of robust growth. there was some growth but it was not as though it was an all out success. i would try to pin him down on that. second, the question of whether his economic policy, the proposals he has put on the table, why they would not create continuing problems with the deficit? he has talked of the dealing with the deficit but i don't think he has been specific enough in dealing...
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they made the low taxes. they did make the pie bigger but then the people who were in power said, you know what, i don't want to pay for your education anymore. i don't want to pay for your unemployment. i don't want to keep up the social safety network that we've had for years. so that's the dynamic that's played out and mitt romney's time at bain capital and the economic model that he started there has really been at the center of what's going on economically in the country. i agree with e.j. i don't think it's some side issue or i don't think it has to be some side issue. i think it's central to the economic argument that we should be having about what kind of capital capitalism that we will have. >> let's listen to how they tried to use bill clinton against obama. >> bill clinton that the air of obama was over. [ applause ] it's enough to make you wonder maybe it was a personal beef with the clintons but probably that -- it runs much deeper than that. >> e.j., that's just weird. he is trying to get in the
they made the low taxes. they did make the pie bigger but then the people who were in power said, you know what, i don't want to pay for your education anymore. i don't want to pay for your unemployment. i don't want to keep up the social safety network that we've had for years. so that's the dynamic that's played out and mitt romney's time at bain capital and the economic model that he started there has really been at the center of what's going on economically in the country. i agree with e.j....
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tax havens that's that's that's substantial gingrich's why if vs romney's tax dodging sandwich is going to be more damaging to these candidates you know i think in the long run the thing that's going to be really damaging to gingrich is that he has no real operation in terms of a campaign he's really he's not it was a book tour it was a book tour accidentally because it sort of blew up into something but the fact is that you need to sort of plan ahead for these things he's not on the ballot in virginia he's not going to be on the ballot in a number of states i don't think he's going to he can really do anything other than damage romney which seems to be fairly high on his agenda so. i you know i think gingrich is got a little bit of a ceiling because of the problems with is is exwife but you know redemption is a big part of the republican base is world view and i think he's going to play that card i'm now a grandpa yeah. yeah and i think i think that's going to rebecca romney's studies might return releases tax returns in april you mention that which raises the question about previous t
tax havens that's that's that's substantial gingrich's why if vs romney's tax dodging sandwich is going to be more damaging to these candidates you know i think in the long run the thing that's going to be really damaging to gingrich is that he has no real operation in terms of a campaign he's really he's not it was a book tour it was a book tour accidentally because it sort of blew up into something but the fact is that you need to sort of plan ahead for these things he's not on the ballot in...
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that he lerred your tax rates and my tax rates and everybody's tax rates, personal income tax rates? are you forgetting that? >> john owe. >> it didn't translate into jobs, and that's what we're talking about. >> how can you look at the country and not think we're in decline? look at europe! >> decline means an irreversible, continuous state that leads to ruin. spangler. >> oh come on, you think we're there? >> it's a long-term process. >> it took rome about 500 years to actually evaporate. 500. >> a couple hundred. did the soviet union evaporated in, what, two years? >> you're comparing us to the former soviet union? >> i think europe and the united states are in inexocible decline. >> the united states is still the best government. we have an open society, a functional society. and we do need a functional government. and we have not. >> for how long? >> a good decade. >> that carries us back to clinton. >> no, it doesn't. >> 2002 would be bush ii. >> all i'm saying here is that it's not over, this game, okay. >> right. >> we need a different kind of leadership in this country than
that he lerred your tax rates and my tax rates and everybody's tax rates, personal income tax rates? are you forgetting that? >> john owe. >> it didn't translate into jobs, and that's what we're talking about. >> how can you look at the country and not think we're in decline? look at europe! >> decline means an irreversible, continuous state that leads to ruin. spangler. >> oh come on, you think we're there? >> it's a long-term process. >> it took rome...
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we've tried giving big tax cuts to the wealthiest of americans. we tried giving insurance companies and wall street a free license to do what they please. here's what we got. fallen incomes, record deficits, and an economic crisis we're still cleaning up after. so we know what works. we know what doesn't. now, governor romney, he's a very talented salesman. and, in this campaign, he's been working overtime to try to repackage the old, bad ideas that didn't work and try to sell them to you as new ideas. he's trying to say that they're changed. but here's the things. iowa, we know what change looks like. [ cheers and applause ] >> and what he's selling is not change. giving more power to the biggest banks? that's not change. another $5 trillion tax cut that favors the wealthy? not change. refusing to answer questions about the details of your policy until after the election? that's definitely not changing. politicians do that all of the time. ruling out compromise, pledging the rubber stamp, the tea party agenda in congress? that's not change. that'
we've tried giving big tax cuts to the wealthiest of americans. we tried giving insurance companies and wall street a free license to do what they please. here's what we got. fallen incomes, record deficits, and an economic crisis we're still cleaning up after. so we know what works. we know what doesn't. now, governor romney, he's a very talented salesman. and, in this campaign, he's been working overtime to try to repackage the old, bad ideas that didn't work and try to sell them to you as...